vicarious
/vɪˈkeərɪəs/adjective
1- experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person(凭想像)通过他人情感(或行动)感受的, 从他人经验间接获得的:
this catalogue brings vicarious pleasure in luxury living.
这份目录使人间接体验到奢华生活的愉悦。
1.1
- acting or done for another替代别人的:
a vicarious atonement.
代人赎罪。
派生词
vicariously
adverbvicariousness
noun词源